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The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	ant-
DEFINITION:	Front, forehead. Oldest form ₂ent-, colored to ₂ant-. Derivatives include along, end, advance, and antique. I. Inflected form (locative singular) anti, “against,” with derivatives meaning in front of, before; also end. 1. un-²; along, from Old English and-,* indicating opposition, from Germanic andi- and anda-. 2. end, from Old English ende, end, from Germanic andja-. 3. ancient¹, ante, ante-, anterior; advance, advantage, vanguard, from Latin ante,* before, in front of, against. 4. anti-; enantiomer, enantiomorph, from Greek anti, against, and enantios, opposite. 5. Compound form anti-k^wo-, “appearing before, having prior aspect” (k^w-, appearance; see ok^w-). antic, antique, from Latin antquus, former, antique. 6. Reduced form ti-. a. until, from Old Norse und,* until, unto; b. elope, from Middle Dutch ont-, away from. Both a and b from Germanic und-. 7. Variant form anto-. Vedanta, from Sanskrit anta, end. II. Probable inflected form (ablative plural) ant-bhi, “from both sides,” whence ambhi, around. See ambhi-. (Pokorny ant-s 48.)


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